You have decided that mobile app security testing needs to happen. Maybe the NESA audit is approaching. Maybe the CISO asked for a report on the mobile banking app. Maybe a peer organisation suffered a breach and the board wants assurance. Whatever the trigger, the question is no longer “why” it is “how quickly can we get there?”
The answer is thirty days. Not thirty days to complete a procurement cycle, or thirty days to onboard a consulting firm, or thirty days to define requirements for an enterprise tool evaluation. Thirty days from first scan to a fully operational, continuous, audit-ready mobile app security programme.
This post is the day-by-day action plan.
Week 1: Visibility (Days 1–7)
The goal of week one is simple: know where you stand. By the end of this week, every mobile application your organisation publishes should have been scanned at least once, and your security team should have a clear picture of the aggregate risk.
Day 1: Run your first scan. Go to hexmobsuite.hiesencyber.com. Create an account. Upload your primary mobile application the one with the most users, the most sensitive data, or the most regulatory exposure. Run the scan. The entire process from account creation to completed scan takes under ten minutes.
When the scan completes, review the findings dashboard. Note the severity breakdown: how many Critical, High, Medium, Low, and Informational findings. Download the PDF report and share it with your security team or development lead. This is your baseline.
Days 2–3: Scan your remaining applications. Most organisations have more than one mobile app. List every Android APK and iOS IPA your organisation publishes customer-facing apps, internal operations apps, partner-facing apps. Upload and scan each one. Do not skip the “small” apps or the “internal” apps auditors do not distinguish between high-profile and low-profile applications, and attackers certainly do not.
Days 4–5: Scan your source code repositories. If your development team maintains source code for the mobile applications in Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Swift, run the code repository scanner as well. This catches vulnerabilities at the source code level before they are compiled into the binary. The same 124-rule engine, the same evidence format, the same compliance mapping.
Days 6–7: Consolidate and prioritise. You now have scan results for every mobile application and code repository. Create a summary document application name, number of findings by severity, the most critical finding for each app. This document becomes the foundation for your remediation plan in week two.
At the end of week one, you have moved from “we don’t know what’s in our apps” to “we know exactly what’s in our apps, classified by severity and mapped to MASVS controls.” That alone is a significant improvement in your compliance position.
Week 2: Assessment (Days 8–14)
The goal of week two is to assess the findings in business context and produce a prioritised remediation plan.
Days 8–10: DREAD scoring for Critical and High findings. For every finding classified as Critical or High, apply the DREAD risk scoring workflow. Assess each finding across the five dimensions Damage, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected Users, Discoverability. Assign a composite risk score.
Some Critical findings will score high across all dimensions and clearly belong at the top of the remediation queue. Others may score lower on Affected Users or Exploitability and can be addressed in the second wave. The DREAD scoring ensures that your remediation priority reflects business risk, not just technical severity.
Days 11–12: Validate findings. Review each finding and assign a validation status. For findings that are genuine issues: Confirmed. For findings that require further investigation (perhaps the code path is reachable only in a specific configuration): Inconclusive. For findings that are mitigated by compensating controls or are false positives: Not Confirmed, with a documented rationale.
This validation step is essential for audit evidence. Regulators expect to see that findings were reviewed and assessed not simply accepted or ignored.
Days 13–14: Produce the remediation plan. Create a prioritised list of findings to remediate, ordered by DREAD composite score. For each finding, the platform provides plain-English remediation guidance what to change, where to change it, and what the secure implementation looks like. Assign each finding to a developer or development team with a target resolution date.
Share the remediation plan with your CISO, CTO, and compliance team. This document demonstrates that the organisation has not just identified vulnerabilities but has a structured plan to address them which is exactly what an auditor wants to see.
Week 3: Remediation (Days 15–21)
The goal of week three is to fix the highest-risk findings and verify the fixes.
Days 15–19: Development team addresses Critical and High findings. Your development team works through the prioritised remediation queue. The remediation guidance in HEXMobileSuite is written for developers not for security specialists so the team can act on findings directly without requiring a security consultant to translate.
Common Critical and High remediations include removing hardcoded secrets and moving them to server-side storage, enforcing HTTPS across all endpoints, implementing certificate pinning, encrypting local data storage, setting debuggable=false in production builds, and restricting exported Android components.
Most of these changes are straightforward. A skilled developer can address three to five Critical findings per day.
Days 20–21: Re-scan and verify. After the development team deploys the fixes, re-scan every application that was modified. Compare the new findings with the baseline from week one. Verify that remediated findings no longer appear. Document any findings that persist either because the fix was incomplete or because the finding requires a more complex remediation.
The re-scan produces a new PDF report that shows the improved security posture fewer Critical findings, fewer High findings, documented remediation. This “before and after” evidence is powerful in an audit context.
Week 4: Automation and Continuity (Days 22–30)
The goal of week four is to ensure that the security gains from weeks one through three are maintained going forward automatically, without relying on manual processes.
Days 22–24: Configure the Play Store Auto-Scanner. For every Android application, configure the Play Store Auto-Scanner with the application’s package name. Choose your scanning model: scheduled polling, CI/CD webhook, or both. Once configured, every future release will be scanned automatically no manual upload required.
Days 25–26: Configure CI/CD integration. If your development team uses GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, or Azure DevOps, integrate HEXMobileSuite into the pipeline. Set severity thresholds for example, fail the build if a Critical finding is detected. This ensures that new vulnerabilities are caught before they reach the app store.
Days 27–28: Establish the ongoing workflow. Document the mobile app security testing process: who reviews new findings, how DREAD scoring is applied, what the escalation path is for Critical findings, when compliance reports are generated, and who is responsible for each step. This documented process is the “continuous programme” that auditors want to see.
Days 29–30: Generate your compliance package. Download the compliance reports for every application the current state, with all remediations reflected. Compile the supporting evidence: DREAD scoring records, remediation documentation, re-scan results, and the documented testing process. Package this as your compliance evidence submission.
This package is ready for NESA, SAMA, CBUAE, or any internal governance body. It demonstrates structured testing against a recognised standard, documented risk assessment, verified remediation, and an ongoing continuous testing programme.
What You Have Built in 30 Days
At the end of this plan, your organisation has moved from an unknown mobile security posture to a documented, continuous, audit-ready security programme.
Week 1 gave you visibility a complete inventory of findings across every mobile application.
Week 2 gave you assessment DREAD-scored, validated findings with a prioritised remediation plan.
Week 3 gave you remediation verified fixes for the highest-risk findings, with before-and-after evidence.
Week 4 gave you continuity automated scanning that ensures every future release is tested, with a documented process that satisfies compliance requirements on an ongoing basis.
This is not a one-time exercise. The programme you have built in thirty days will run continuously, producing fresh compliance evidence on every release cycle, catching regressions before they reach users, and giving your security team visibility into the mobile attack surface that most organisations still ignore.
The Cost of Thirty Days
The entire programme can be built using HEXMobileSuite’s self-serve plans starting with the free tier for the initial scans and scaling to a paid plan as your needs grow. No enterprise sales cycle. No six-month procurement process. No consulting engagement.
Thirty days. From first scan to audit-ready.
Start Day 1 now: hexmobsuite.hiesencyber.com
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